intro to second life
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Done in Spring 2008 for librarians of the Association de bibliothécaires du Québec Library Association. A verrry basic intro to SL before diving "in world".TRANSCRIPT
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Virtual Services for Virtual Users:Libraries in Second Life
Amy Buckland(aka Jambina Oh)
ABQLA conference, April 11, 2008
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Today…
• Living your Second Life• Who else is around• Service possibilities• Live tour
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What is it not?
• A game– No points– No death– No “win”
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What is Second Life?
• MUVE– Multi User Virtual Environment
• Lots of people• Lives online• Not a website, but a virtual world
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Who created it?
• Linden Labs– Founded in 1999 by Philip Rosedale– Software open to the public in 2003– Opened the code in the summer of 2007
“It is our mission to connect us all to an online world that advances the human condition.”
-Philip Rosedale
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Who develops it?
• YOU!– Everything you will see has been created by
users (called “residents”)• More than 13 million accounts
– Creators maintain intellectual property rights over “objects”
• Economy of SL is over $1 million USD daily• Over 65,000 acres of “land”
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Avatars
• Human… or not• Male or female• Change clothing instantly• Animation overrides
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Communicating
• Chat– Text-based– Synchronous– Public
• IM– Text-based– Synchronous– Private
• Voice
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The lingo
• RL/SL• Griefer• LM• TP• Lag• Rez• Noob (n00b)
• Chatting– ty– wb– afk– brb– Lol/rofl/roflmao– I <3 that!
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Moving around
• Walk/run– Can use animation overrides to change walk
• Fly– Also means you can fall out of the sky
• Teleport– Use landmarks to get around quickly
• Scripted vehicle
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Costs
• FREE*
* Unless you want to..– own land– have more than one avatar– shop
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Challenges
• Technology– Fairly new computers required– High-speed wired internet access
• Connectivity issues• Learning curve
– Very steep
• Naughtiness– Most people in SL are not
librarians/educators
• “Empty world” syndrome
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Who is in Second Life?
• The same folks that are in Real Life– Education: Harvard, McMaster– Commerce: Nissan, Armani Exchange– Non-profits: Reporters Without Borders– Government: NOAA, Swedish Embassy– News: Reuters– Health: CDC, Imperial London University
Hospital
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… and libraries!
• McMaster University Library• Stanford University Library• Cleveland Public Library• National Library of Health• Nebraska State Library Commission• University College Dublin• American Library Association• And many more…
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Capabilities
• Stream video and audio• Upload slide shows• Live-conferencing possibilities• Virtual exhibits• Push users to your web space• HTML on prim
– Co-browsing of the web will soon be possible
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Possible library services
• Virtual reference• Virtual exhibits• Digital literacy courses• “How-to” tutorials
– Search a database– Evaluate Google results– Search PubMed
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Info Island International
• Coordinated by Alliance Library Systems of Illinois
• Reference area– Staffed 80+ hours per week
• International staff of volunteers
– Answer both RL and SL reference questions– Instruction to residents
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Libraries in virtual worlds
• Even in an online environment, when users could very easily use Google, they seek out a library.
Library as place is not a dead concept.
It’s just in a different location.
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Let’sLet’sjumpjumpin!in!
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For more information
Second Lifehttp://www.secondlife.com
Alliance Library System Info Archipelagohttp://www.infoisland.org
SL Education Bloghttp://www.sl-educationblog.org/
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Thanks! Merci!
Presentation will be posted at http://jambina.com
Feel free to contact me at [email protected]
Want more?EI presentation on May 5, 2008 at 2pm